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jokerx

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    Comment #17803794

    Those have been in UML for years. (Google it.) Actually, that's the problem: everything is in UML. I am sure someone pointed out that "X" had it but UML didn't, so they made sure t…

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    Comment #17803772

    Housing projects for everybody!

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    Comment #17803220

    Said parent commenter: "Without any good life strategies the happiness money brings peaks at 70k or such (basically you don't have to worry about regular life expenses)." Please! T…

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    Comment #17802969

    Looks just like UML to me. All those "round trip" model to code, code to model promises were a bust. And this article from the late 90s--talk about stale ideas.

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    Comment #17785293

    Your example of needing to define a type because "int" is not good enough is very C/C++ centric. Most languages don't have the plethora of integer types that C has. Java, for examp…

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    Comment #17785196

    Code tells "how." Comments tell "why."

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    Comment #17785191

    I take it you don't write a lot of CRUD apps? You deal with a lot of data that is of only a few simple types, and as I said in my post, interoperability means you can't get too cra…

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    Comment #17785152

    I understand your reasoning, but in your reply to my critique, you did not address any of the drawbacks I listed except for the first comment I made. If you can explicitly refute t…

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    Comment #17784298

    Please don't do this! All you have accomplished really is to move the descriptive name from the variable's name to the variable's type, and at what cost? You now have to create a w…